People Powered Health is a programme from NESTA, the UK innovation charity, to support the design and delivery of innovative services for people that are living with long term health conditions.

The programme focuses on co-production – that people’s needs are better met when they are involved in an equal and reciprocal relationship with professionals – working together to get things done. It is a radical approach to public services that is built around six characteristics:
– Recognising people as assets
– Building on people’s capabilities
– Promoting mutuality and reciprocity
– Developing peer support networks
– Breaking down barriers between professionals and users
– Facilitating rather than delivering

Design for Service Innovation & Development: Final Report
Edited by y Daniela Sangiorgi, Alison Prendiville, Jeyon Jung and Eun Yu
May 2015
DeSID (Design for Service Innovation and Development) is a six-month scoping study funded by the AHRC …

Last month the people from Irish UX consultancy Frontend Design looked at the UX revolution in healthcare and how changes in that sector are moving towards putting the customer at the centre of the service. …

How to thrive in the next economy
by John Thackara
Thames & Hudson
August 2015, 192pp
Abstract
Drawing on a lifetime of travel in search of real-world alternatives that work, I describe how communities the world over are creating a …

Far from being a panacea, small loans add to poverty and undermine people by saddling them with unsustainable debt, argues anthropologist Dr. Jason Hickel of the London School of Economics:
What’s so fascinating about the microfinance …

Acclaimed anthropologist Stefana Broadbent leads a new "Collective Intelligence" unit at Nesta, the UK innovation charity, that is "looking at ways to support the emergence of Collective Intelligence to solve complex societal issues".
More concretely, they …

On May 18th 2015 the Köln International School of Design (KISD) in Germany hosted the conference "Service Design – Redefining the Meaning of Design".
Designers, companies and scientists shared insights on theory and practice of Service …

A new project funded under the FP7 European Commission framework is getting citizens involved in testing new tools for reducing energy consumption during peak loads, in the hope that its pilot program will set the …